The World of Soy, edited by Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney Mintz, is the subject of a long and favorable review in the new issue of The Times Literary […]
Broven has his MOJO workin’
Good reviews continue to flow in for John Broven’s book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers. Following the enthusiastic notices from Publishers Weekly and […]
“Stolen Bases” author in The New York Times
Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, is quoted in the March 1, 2009, issue of The New York Times in an […]
All it took was a phone call
For almost three years now I’ve been confused by the method of communication used by a popular online-only review publication. To request a review copy, or alert me to a published […]
Farewell, Susie
After 30 years of service to the University of Illinois, Assistant Sales Manager Susie Dueringer is retiring from the Press. Susie has helped keep the Press functioning in many different ways, […]
Starring Ronell by Willis Regier
The debut of Examined Life gives Avital Ronell a celebrity that will amaze her, please her, and puzzle her, all at once. Choosing Avital as one of the principals in the […]
Cafe Society in the Night Lights
David Brent Johnson posts an article that he wrote in 2000 about the Billie Holiday song “Strange Fruit” in advance of his radio interview this weekend on WFIU with Terry Trilling-Josephson, […]
Style points
The new Harper’s Magazine arrived yesterday with a cover story (subscription required) titled “The Last Book Party.” Yes, it’s another article on the death of publishing. Or, I think it is. I […]
The Atlantic on Guitar Hero
James Parker pens an article for The Atlantic that I’ve been waiting to read for over a year. To a senescent music industry, this “downloadable content” has worked like Ponce […]
Kindleizing Technoland
The New York Times’ review of Amazon’s new Kindle is worth reading. The point everyone is missing is that in Technoland, nothing ever replaces anything. E-book readers won’t replace books. […]
Illinois at the Oscars
The 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony included two prominent film figures who happen to be the subjects of forthcoming books in our Contemporary Film Directors series. Jerry Lewis received the Jean Hersholt […]
Jason Epstein on the future of publishing
Tools of Change for Publishing has posted Jason Epstein’s keynote address given at the recent TOC conference. I don’t have to tell anyone here that we are at the end of the […]